Credential & Certificate Governance
Track expiring app secrets, certificates, and connector credentials, and route rotation through approval before they cause outages, with a full evidence trail for every rotation.
Expired credentials cause incidents. Most organizations find out at the worst time.
Application registration secrets expire silently. TLS certificates lapse without automated monitoring. Connector API tokens are rotated without documentation. When something breaks, the root cause is often a credential that expired days ago and nobody had a rotation process for. The governance gap is not the rotation itself, it is the lack of visibility into what is expiring and when, and the absence of an approval-tracked rotation record.
- ✓App registration secret expiry is a common cause of unplanned service interruptions
- ✓Certificates without monitored expiry create compliance gaps and potential outages
- ✓Credentials belonging to departed employees persist in integrations long after departure
- ✓Ownerless app registrations with active secrets are a privileged access risk with no accountable owner
The governed approach
App Secret Tracking
Nuxari pulls app registration credentials from connected identity platforms and tracks their expiry timelines, alerting when rotation is needed before the deadline.
Certificate Monitoring
Track TLS, SAML, and application certificates with expiry-ahead alerting so rotation is planned, not reactive.
Connector Credential Management
Every Nuxari connector uses credentials that need periodic rotation. The connector lifecycle tracks credential expiry and routes rotation through the approval workflow.
Ownerless App Detection
App registrations with no assigned owner, often created by departed employees, are surfaced as findings. Each one is a privileged credential with no accountability chain.
Rotation Workflows
When rotation is needed, a workflow is created specifying what should be rotated, when, and by whom. Rotation executes only after the approver grants authorization.
Rotation Evidence
The rotation, old credential expiry, new credential creation, validation, is captured as a signed evidence record confirming the action was authorized and completed.
Expiring credentials should be found before they break access or create risk, not after the outage.
How the lifecycle runs
- 01Credential and certificate inventory is collectedNuxari queries connected identity platforms for app registrations, their associated secrets, and their expiry timestamps. SAML certificates and TLS certs are included where connectors support collection.
- 02Expiry timeline is tracked continuouslyEach credential's expiry date is tracked. Nuxari generates alerts at configurable lead times, typically 60, 30, and 14 days before expiry.
- 03Ownerless registrations are flaggedApp registrations with no current owner, typically because the original creator left the organization, are flagged as findings regardless of their credential expiry status.
- 04Rotation workflow is createdAn IT administrator creates a rotation workflow specifying the credential to be rotated, the target rotation date, and the responsible team.
- 05Rotation is approved and executedThe approver reviews the rotation scope and authorizes it. The rotation executes on the approved schedule.
- 06New credential is validatedAfter rotation, the dependent service or integration is tested to confirm it is operating with the new credential. The validation result is captured.
- 07Rotation evidence is assembledCredential expiry record, rotation approval, execution log, and validation result are assembled into a signed evidence bundle.
App registration secrets expiring across three integrations
A scheduled scan surfaces three app registration secrets expiring within 30 days. Each is used by a different integration, and one belongs to an app with no assigned owner.
Illustrative example. Not real customer data.
- 01Entra ID connector: 3 app registration secrets flagged, expiring in 22, 28, and 8 days
- 028-day expiry: svc-crm-integration, Critical priority (imminent)
- 03Ownerless app detected: app-legacy-sync, no owner assigned, active secret
- 04Rotation workflow created for svc-crm-integration, scheduled immediately
- 05IT Lead approves; rotation executed; service health check confirms new credential works
- 06Ownership assigned to app-legacy-sync; rotation workflow created with 14-day window
- 0728-day and 22-day rotation workflows scheduled with appropriate lead time
- 08All four rotation evidence bundles captured and linked to findings
Evidence produced
- Credential inventory snapshot with expiry dates per app registration
- Expiry alert record with lead time and delivery confirmation
- Ownerless app finding with detection timestamp and scope
- Rotation workflow document with credential, schedule, and approver
- Approval record with authorizer identity and timestamp
- Rotation execution log with old-credential deactivation and new-credential activation
- Service validation result confirming integration operates on new credential
- Evidence bundle per rotation cycle exportable as PDF or JSON
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